Heated Braised Snacks (Luwei)
Throw your favorite ingredients into the monkey! A night market side dish stewed in a special spice soup
Description
A dish where customers pick from dozens of raw ingredients (veg, meat, noodles) in a basket, and the stall vendor boils them on the spot in a hot, star-anise-scented medicinal broth.
Restaurants serving Heated Braised Snacks (Luwei)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Favorite ingredients(Veg/Meat/Noodles)
- Soy sauce
- Star anise
- Cassia
- Suan Cai
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- [Lu Zhi (Broth)] Keep a giant pot of pitch-black special broth (Lao Lu: replenished secret sauce) constantly boiling, filled with pork bone broth, soy sauce, rock sugar, and medicinal spices like 'star anise, cloves, cassia, Sichuan pepper, licorice'.
- [Ordering] Stalls display mountains of skewered raw ingredients: cabbage, enoki, white water snowflake, sliced pork, chicken hearts, duck blood, Dougan (tofu), wieners, Prince Noodles (instant ramen). Customers pick favorites into a basket.
- [Heating] The vendor takes the basket, chops ingredients bite-sized, and plunges them in the boiling special broth.
- Simmer for a few mins until flavors and colors penetrate deeply.
- Transfer to a bag (or bowl) with a little broth, top with sesame oil, chopped Suan Cai (mustard greens), scallions, and special chili sauce.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Strong Star anise and Clove aroma
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Dilute store-bought Chinese braised pork sauce with water and boil ingredients
Pairing
Tapioca Milk Tea or Taiwan Tea
Trivia
[For Everyone] Unlike the cold 'Luwei Platter', this is heated on the spot. Hugely supported by women and students as a late-night snack because you can eat massive amounts of veg deliciously. A Taiwanese night market absolute classic.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Always add 'Prince Noodles (classic Taiwanese instant ramen)' at the end, slurping the junk curly noodles that have absorbed all the spice broth's umami!
Allergen
Wheat, Soy, Sesame, (Depends on ingredients)